Self-Love Week
Self-Love Week: Feb 11 to Feb 16
Trent Women’s Centre, Trent Queer Collective and OPIRG is once again bring you Self-Love Week packed with workshops, events, film and performances. This year highlights include Menstruation Workshop, Anatomy of Pleasure Workshop, Fat Activism 101, Film Screening of Short Bus, Bowling Night, Workshops and Readings by Faranza Doctor. Come meet us when we table at Wenjack on Tuesday Feb 12 and Wednesday Feb 13. We will be giving out buttons, valentines, safe sex kits, our Women's self-rep paper and selling diva cups. For more info, contact info@ trentwomenscentre.ca
Monday, Feb 11
Anatomy of Pleasure Workshop
4.30 PM: Morton Reading Room, Champlain College
It's the anatomy lessons that high school never provided. Come out to learn and talk about our bodies and the wonderful things they can do. All genders welcome. Hosted by Trent Women’s Centre
Wednesday, February 13
Creative Writing Workshop
12:30 to 2:00 PM: @ Hobbs Library, Sadleir House, 751 George St. N
Free Writing Workshop facililated by Faranza Doctor for People from Marginalized Communities. This experiential, relaxed workshop will cover issues such as barriers and the ways we can nourish our writing practice, as well as the complexities of writing about our own marginalized communities. Open to women, people of colour, queer and trans people, Indigenous peoples, differently abled people, working class people, etc. Hosted by Trent Queer Collective
Self-Care Workshop
3:00 to 4:30 PM: Hobbs Library, Sadleir House, 751 George St. N.
Free Workshop facilitated by Faranza Doctor on Self Care for Queer and Trans Communities in the Context of Oppression - Talking about How We Cope and Resist. Hosted by Trent Queer Collective
Public Reading and Book Release: Stealing Nasreen
5:30 to 7:00 PM: Senior Common Room, Scott House, Traill College
Critically acclaimed author and therapist, Farzana Doctor doing a public reading from her recently published novel, Stealing Nasreen. Copies of novel will be available for purchase. Hosted by Trent Queer Collective
Film Screening: Shortbus
7.00 PM: Sadleir House Lecture Room
John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus. Presented by OPIRG, Women’s Centre and TQC
Thursday, 14 Feb
Bleeding out: A workshop on Menstruation
11.00 to 2.00 PM: Common Room (Upstairs), Sadleir House (751 George St. N.)
Discuss your own menstrual experiences in a caring, confidential and open environment. Learn how to make DIY pads and how to use menstrual cups. Experience menopause and holistic alternatives to menstrual "problems". Deconstruct traditional and socially constructed views of menstruation. Love your body, Love your blood. Hosted by Trent Women’s Centre and OPIRG
Poetry Slam and Dance
7.30 PM: The Spill Coffee Bar (414 George St. N.)
Peterborough’s monthly poetry slam, For more information, and past news and pictures, visit peterboroughpoetryslam.blog.com
Friday, 15 Feb
Bowling for Self-Love
7:00 to 9:00 PM: Peterborough Bowlerama (845 Chemong Rd)
Join Transmission and Trent Queer Collective for a fun night of bowling. Meet at 6.30 at Scott House (Traill College) to walk to the bowling place together. $5 per person (ten pin). Hosted by Transmission and Trent Queer Collective
Saturday, 16 Feb
Fat Activism 101
3.30 to 5.00 PM: Peterborough Public Library, Auditorium.
Fat activism is a unique approach to talking about size acceptance; it explores how bodies exist in a continuum, how and why the media favours some bodies over others, and how that affects the way individuals feel about themselves. Fat activism attempts to unravel the reasons why it can sometimes be so difficult to feel beautiful in our own skin, and help more and more people break down the barriers to healthy self-esteem. Fat Activism seeks to educate the public by providing positive images of fat people and deconstructing the myth that fat people are necessarily lazy, stupid, ugly, unhappy, asexual and don't/can't dance.
Join members of the Fat Femme Mafia discussion that explores what Fat Activism is, why it exists and what it hopes to achieve. You will have the opportunity to engage in the discussion, ask questions and make comments. Participants will receive a mini tool guide for doing their own body activism. Hosted by OPIRG and Women's Events Planning Committee.
MELT! - Spoken Word and Dance
Market Hall (336 George St. N.)
9.00 to 10 M: Spoken Word Open Stage
10.00 PM to 2AM: Dance with DJ Jarrett
Got the post-Valentines blues? Wish winter was over? Well come on out to MELT and tell us about it and then dance the night away! Pride Dance so the music will be great! 5 entry, All ages event - alcohol served with proof of age of majority.
If you are interested in performing in the spoken word portion of the evening or want more information contact rick@rainbowservice.org. Please spread the word and bring your friends! Any proceeds from this event will go to funding programs of the Rainbow Service Organization and the Rainbow Youth Coalition